This file describes the replication materials for Sunkyoung Park and Yongwoo Jeung, "Stirring the Populist Tide: Campaign Rhetoric and Electoral Choices in the 2022 Korean Presidential Election".

All analyses were carried out using Stata/SE version 19.5 for Windows (64 bit). 


1.  Stata .do files:
"0_command_for_recoding.do" 
	: a do-file to recode the raw version of the master data.   

"0_command_for_analysis.do" 
	: a do-file to replicate all empirical results. 


2. Data files:
 "1_master_data.dta" 
	: raw version of the master data file which contains NVM fundings and election outcomes at the township level, before recoded. 
 
 "1_master_data_recoded.dta" 
	: recoded data file for empirical analysis. 

 "1_master_data_INV_only.dta" 
	: a recoded data file with a main independent variable only to merge with survey data. You don't need this file if you use the recorded data.

 "2_residential_satisfaction_survey.dta" 
	:  raw version of the Residential Satisfaction Survey data (conducted by KREI), merged with NVM fundings.

 "2_residential_satisfaction_survey_recoded.dta" 
	: recoded data file for empirical analysis. 

 "3_rural_village_survey.dta" 
	: raw version of the Rural Village Survey data (conducted by KREI), merged with NVM fundings.

 "3_rural_village_survey_recoded.dta" 
	: recoded data file for empirical analysis. 

 "4_korean_identity_survey.dta" 
	: the Korean Identity Survey (conducted by the East Asia Institute), merged with NVM fundings. 

 "4_korean_identity_survey_recoded.dta" 
	: recoded data file for empirical analysis. 


3. Log file: 
"5_result_log.text"
	

4. Codebook:
"6_Codebook.pdf" - a codebook for the all four data files.


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Information on Data Sources
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1. Data Source for master data. 
Master data include NVM funding, election results, population census, agricultural census and night-time luminosity data. 

(1) NVM fuding data are from the Statistical Yearbook of Saemaul, published by the Ministry of Home Affairs. The hardcopy of the book is only available in the National Assembly Library of Korea and no electronic access is available. 

(2) Election data come from the National Election Commission. Any interestred users can download all Korean election results from http://info.nec.go.kr/ 

(3) Population and Agricultural Census data come from the National Census data, which is electrionically available in Statistics Korea from http://kosis.kr . 
The direct access and detailed information on population census (ingu chongjosa) from https://www.narastat.kr/metasvc/index.do?orgId=101&confmNo=101001&kosisYn=Y and on agricultural census (nongrim a-up chongjosa) from https://kosis.kr/common/meta_onedepth.jsp?vwcd=MT_OTITLE&listid=101_1&conn_path=H2

(4) Night-time luminosity data are extracted from satelite images from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) https://www.noaa.gov/



2. Residential Satisfaction Survey
Residential Satisfaction survey is from Korea Rural Economic Institute (KREI). To get access to the full data, any interested users can contact Min Seok Kim (KREI) or see the survey report: https://www.krei.re.kr/krei/researchReportView.do?key=67&pageType=010101&biblioId=527168
Full citation: 
Kim, Min Seok and Tae Wan Kim. 2019. 2019 Agricultural and Fishing Villagers' Residential Satisfaciton (2019 Nongeochon Jumin Jungju Manjokdo). Naju, Korea: Korea Rural Economic Institute.
Kim, Min Seok and Tae Wan Kim. 2020. 2020 Agricultural and Fishing Villagers' Residential Satisfaciton (2020 Nongeochon Jumin Jungju Manjokdo). Naju, Korea: Korea Rural Economic Institute.


3. Rural Village Survey
Residential Satisfaction survey is from Korea Rural Economic Institute (KREI). To get access to the full data, any interested users can contact Mi Ryung Song (KREI) or see the survey report: https://www.krei.re.kr/krei/researchReportView.do?key=67&pageType=010101&biblioId=527746
Full citation: Song, Mi Ryung, Ju In Sung, Eu Chul Han, Kyung Chan Min. 2020. 2020 Nongsaneochon Maeul Panel Jusa Gyulgya. Naju, Korea: Korea Rural Economic Institute. 


4. Korean Identity Survey
Korean Identity survey is from East Asian Institute (EAI). The full data can be downloaded in Korea Social Science Data Archive (KOSSADA). The direct URI is https://kossda.snu.ac.kr/handle/20.500.12236/15569
Full citation: Kang, Won Taek. 2015. Korean Identity Survey (Hanukinul Jungchesung Josa) Dataset. East Asian Institute; Asiatic Research Institute in Korea University; Jungang Ilbo. Korea Social Science Data Archive (KOSSADA) 2016-12-07, A1-2015-0048, V 1.0, http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12236/15569


Note: Regarding all data in this paper, we do not violate any license or data producers' terms of use by posting these data in AJPS Dataverse.


